OPINION: A recent Jeffrey Simpson column argued that the Liberals have lost their share of the popular vote as they have shifted to the left over the last decade. But, stphnmaher says, Simpson misses the main reason for the Liberals’ move left.
The country is more diverse and the media more divisive than when the Liberals were the party of ‘garden-variety Canadians.’Pierre Trudeau is saluted by an RCMP officer as he carries his son Justin to Rideau Hall in 1973 to attend an outdoor reception for visiting heads of the Commonwealth countries in Ottawa. last week with an analysis of the current state of the Liberal Party of Canada, an institution he observed closely for decades before his 2016 retirement from the.
In his thoughtful essay of last week, he brings the same scalpel to bear on the current state of the Liberal party, noting that it has lost its share of the popular vote as it has shifted to the left over the last decade. The article was widely shared among blue Liberals, who feel these days that while their party is in power, the NDP is enjoying the spoils.
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